Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-11-05

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picks in public it is very considerate II
them to use wood instead OF quills.
The mystery of strange life was solved
and wonderfully romantic story OF
criminal adventure has been brought out
| by the Identification OF the late DR..
Andrew Jackson Grant, the famous
bigamist and confidence man and Fenian
leader, DR.. Louis Coatri.
No change has taken place that tends
/ 10 shows and improvement in the rail-
way mail service. New Mexico and Ari-
ma contributes largely to the support OF
our mail service but don't receive any
more attention or consideration than does
a convicted scoundrel in Valencia coun-
ty.
The schedule tine Of passenger trains
on the Southern Pacific railroad will be
changed in few days. 1t is understood
tnat there will be no very material change
in the time of trains at Deming, but the
running time between San Francisco and
New Orleans will be considerably short
ened.
The creditors OF Newman & Fau,
East st. Louis bankers and capitalists OF
the Niobrara Cattle Company, which
failed some week ago, have agreed TO ac-
cept i5 cents on the dollar and release the
debtors from further liabilities. The en-
tire liabilities Of Newmsn d Farr a
mounted to about s750,0O0
A new speculation equal to the Col
orado loco deal, has sprung up in the
east The government pays $40 a head
for all cattle condemned and killed by
sanitary authority. Sharpers buy up old
COWS at SO head, put diseased
animal among them TO infect the herd
then have the animals inspected. con-
demned and killed, and rake in their
little $40 each.
The cashier who took the funds of the
Deming Hotel at Deming and was on his
way to different climate was arrested at
FL Paso and brought up here last night.
He will board for time at the county
boarding house and will be authority
as to the relative merits of Fred Harvey's
and Sheriff Laird's boarding houses
Sentinel
A miner named Sam Rowe, formely
Of Georgetown, who has been working in
the Standard at Gold Hill for the past
three weeks, met with fatal accident on
Monday last. He was tamping a
stick of giant powder, which exploded,
nearly tearing his arme from his body.
He was brought in to the hospital on
Tuesday but died in short time after ar
irving. Silver CityEnterprise
The Bravton at Grafton is worked by
its owners, the Taylor Bros, anj the shaft
has reached depth of 100 feet where
drift north has been started The south
drift from this level is 30 feet in length,
cross cut at the 100-foot level shows the
vein to be II feet in width. This is
gold and silver bearing fissure vein OF
quartz in porphyretic country rock
Black Range.
Gus Holmes, one of the east side
school board, last night had two of the
fellows with their thimble-rig shell game
arrested and taken before Judge Wooster.
They had gotten out but one license and
that was in the name Of O'Brien. The
two arrested contended that one of them
was O'Brien and the other was his man
ager Judge Wooster put one Of them on
the stand and started to swear him, but
he backed down and acknowledged his
name was Daily. They were fined $25
each, and thus did Mr.. Holmes make
clear $5G.-Optic.
II has been discovered that ferryman
on the lower Danube, who has been in the
habit of conveying across the river work
men returning from Roumana, who
took this route to avoid producing a GER
tilicate that they paid taxes in Roumania
or money in default therof has taken
them to a small island, where he murder
ed them and then robbcrel them of their
savings. A judicial inquiry reveales the
fact that hundreds Of work
men have been dispatched by the fend
and bodies buried or thrown into the
reeds along the river banks.
The leasers of the st. Cloud mine are
extracting good ore from the tunnel OF
that property. Their first work in this
consisted of cutting through
a lime horse which had crowded out
the mineral, but the cutting through Of
this barrier has brought to light some
very fine looking ore which is undoubt-
edly as good if not better than was ever
taken from the tunnel The leasers of
this property are much pleased with the
showing they have before them. st.
Cloud is destined to become one of the
leading mines of the country, Black
Range.